BLOOD FLUKES Flashcards
Manson’s Blood fluke
S. Mansoni
Oriental blood fluke
S. Japonicum
Vesical Blood Fluke
S. Haematobium
Infective stage of blood flukes
Forked tailed cercaria
MOT OF BLOOD FLUKES
Skin penetration
Number of host in blood flukes
1 definitive host = man
1 intermediate = snail/ mollusk
Requires 2 host
MOT: Entry of cercaria in the skin can lead to ?
Schistosomiasis or Bilharziasis
What does blood flukes infect?
Mesenteric veins not blood
Sexes in blood flukes are called
Non hermaphroditic or dioecious
Dioecious or non hermaphroditic means
Separate sexes or romantic pairs of male and female
The body of the adult blood fluke is
ELONGATED , cylindrical like round worm
The body of the Male worms of blood flukes are
Shorter and robust
The body of females in blood flukes are
Longer and slender which is healthy
Dows males and female are provided with oral and ventral suckers
Yes,
acetebelumn
Used by male worms to vary female during copulation
a. Acetebelum
B. Gynecophoric canal
B. Gynecophoric canal